Show off your Weekly Finds.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Here's an interesting item I picked up at Wonderfest. Someone actually made a toy out of the monsters from the 1966 Peter Cushing movie, "Island of Terror"!

[Unknown Primate]

Man, that is really neat!

[Anton Phibes]

No  Wonderfest for me this year.  Been a bad three/ four years for getting there. Nice toy, though

[marsattacks666]

Interesting.

[BigShadow]

Here's an interesting item I picked up at Wonderfest. Someone actually made a toy out of the monsters from the 1966 Peter Cushing movie, "Island of Terror"!

Kool piece....what's is made of?

[RedKing]

Nice Silicate figure! How big is it?

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

The "Island of Terror" Silicate is about 9 & 1/2 to 10 inches long, and maybe 3 or 4 inches tall. It was made by Sputnik Supplies Inc. (www.sputniksupplies.com). I don't know exactly what it's made of. It's some kind of molded plastic. The guy had a couple of variants too; one was red and the other was glow-in-the-dark. This was definitely made in someone's garage shop in small production runs. It's certainly not a mass produced product. Can you imagine a company mass producing monster toys from an obscure 1966 cult film not even on DVD?

Well, THEY SHOULD!

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

If you decide to contact Sputnik Supplies about getting your own "Island of Terror" silicate, tell 'em Radioactive Rod of the UMA sent ya! BEWARE: This toy has sucked the bone morrow out of most of my other toys already, and I had to chop off the hand of my Peter Cushing doll to save him from the same fate!

[jimm]

Creepy arse movie when you were a kid!

[monsterphile]

About a month ago, a friend called me letting me know that a friend of his stopped by a yard sale that had classic and  b-movie horror DVDs for $1 each.  I headed over to the sale to see if I could fill in some holes in my movie collection.  It was woman in her 60s with her daughter and son-in-law with about 8 coppy paper boxes full of DVDs and they were almost all horror.  I already have a lot of horror movies on DVD, but I was shocked how many she had that I didn't have (and wanted!).

They had actually been her husband's and he had apparently died relatively recently (within the last few years).  I sat down in the driveway and started pulling stuff out by the handful that I wanted.  The son-in-law made a comment about me having a store, thinking that I was intending to resell them.  I told them that, in fact, these were for myself and what a horror/Sci Fi fan I was.  Even though money is very tight, I picked out about 120 titles.  I couldn't help myself.  I felt like an addict (and maybe there's some truth to that!).  I actually passed on a lot of other titles that I would have loved to have picked up also. 

I spoke with the woman about how much I love horror movies and she told me about her husband's love for them as well.  For me, it was important to let her know that these films that her husband had loved were going to a good home where I would appreciate them like her husband had.  Just sentimental silliness, I guess.  She told me she would probably have another yard sale later on, so I gave her my email address and told her to let me know when she was having it.

Cut to a few weeks later and I just happened to stop at a yard sale down the main road from here.  It turned out that the woman's brother was having a yard sale and she brought those boxes back out over there.  I teased her about not emailing me.  She thought that I had already found all that I wanted.  On this day, I scooped about another 50 or so up.   

Here's a list of (all/most?) of the titles that I got.  There were some special editions and multi-disc sets in there as well.  I was able to upgrade some titles that I only had in VHS before.  I may be eating DVDs for a while

Rob



Criterion titles
The Third Man
Equinox
Eyes Without A Face
The Most Dangerous Game

Hammer films
The Abominable Snowmen
Scars of Dracula
The Reptile
To The Devil A Daughter
The Vengeance of She
Rasputin, the Mad Monk
Four Sided Triangle/X The Unknown

From the Wade Williams collection
Teenage Monster
Lost Continent
The Astounding She Monster
Kronos
Giant from the Unknown
Flight to Mars
Gallery of Horror

Naschy titlesWerewolf Shadow
The Hanging Woman
Human Beasts/Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

Warner Brothers ArchivesDon't Be Afraid of the Dark
Crescendo
From Hell It Came

MGM Midnite Movies
Tomb of Ligeia/An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe
Countess Dracula/The Vampire Lovers
Empire of the Ants/Tentacles
Chosen Survivors/The Earth Dies Screaming
The House on Skull Mountain/The Mephisto Waltz
Gorilla at large/Mystery on Monster Island
A Blueprint for Murder/Man in the Attic
Devils of Darkness/Witchcraft
The Beast Within

Casa Negra CollectionThe Witch's Mirror
The Living Coffin
The Man and the Monster
The Black Pit of Dr. M
The Curse of the Crying Woman
The Vampire/The Vampire's Coffin

Argento titles
Sleepless
Phenomena
Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Door Into Darkness
Suspiria (3-disc limited edition)
Inferno
Tenebrae/Deep Red
Flour Flies on Grey Velvet
Mother of Tears
The Card Player
The Stendahl Syndrome

Sets
Universal Sci Fi Collection Vol. 1
Universal Sci Fi Collection Vol. 2
Universal Horror Classic  Movie Collection (the one with The Black Cat, Captive Wild Woman, etc)
Hammer Films Icons of Horror Collection
Hammer Films Icons of Suspense Collection

Individual Horror/Sci Fi titles (some double features)
The Cat and the Canary (1979 version)
The Company of Wolves
Cronos (del Toro)
I, Madman!
Time After Time
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
Dan Curtis' Dracula/The Strange Case of Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Jack Palance)
Beginning of the End
Spider Baby
Death Proof
Planet Terror
The Awful Dr. Orloff
The H-Man
4D Man
Horror of Party Beach/Curse of the Living Corpse
Moon Zero Two/When Dinosaurs Rules the Earth
World Without  End/Satellite in the Sky
Metropolis (Kino)
Fahrenheit 451
Shock Waves
The Skull (Lee & Cushing)
And Now the Screaming Starts
Curse of the Faceless Man
Manhattan Baby (Fulci)
Stagefright: Aquarius
The Brute Man
Asylum (Amicus)
Jess Franco's Count Dracula (Lee)
The Cyclops
Count Dracula (Louis Jordan BBC)
Chamber of Horrors/The Brides of Fu Manchu
Black Torment
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
The Man Who Changed His Mind (Karloff)
Let the Right One In
Land of the Minotaur/Terror
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Cushing)
An Angel for Satan/The Long Hair of Death
Nosferatu (Kinski)
The Mask (1961 3-D film)
The Testament of Dr, Mabuse
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
The Woman Eater
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Mill of the Stone Women
The Cabinet of Dr, Caligari (1962)
Day of the Triffids
The Man Who Laughs
Gorgo
The Beast Must Die (Amicus)
Simon, King of the Witches
King of the Zombies
The Shock (Chaney)
King Dinosaur/The Jungle
Monster of London City
The Old Dark House (original)
Zombie Lake
The Unearthly
The Innocents

"Gray market" DVDs (a lot from Sinister Cinema)
The Brain Eaters
The Lady and the Monster
Flesh and Blood (Chaney)
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
A Study in Terror
Night Child
Half Human
The Catman of Paris
Beyond the Door
The Maze (1953  3-D)
Beyond the Time Barrier
The Gamma People
Behind the Mask (Karloff)
The Hands of Orlac
Alien Contamination
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
Attack of the Crab Monsters
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
The Colossus of New York
Midnight at Madame Tussaud's
The Black Sleep

Non-horror titles (a bunch of Noir films)
Being John Malkovich
Knights of the Round Table
Laura
Night of the Hunter
What Dreams May Come
House of Bamboo
The Shadow of Silk Lennox (Chaney, Jr.)
Black Widow
Black Angel
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
Evil Roy Slade (John Astin)
Land of the Pharaohs
McLintock!
Comin' at Ya! (1980s 3-D)
Danger: Diabolik
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Lee & Cushing)
Svengali
House of Seven Gables
Dynamite Dan (Karloff)
The Bells (Karloff)
Dark Passage
Double Indemnity
Sherlock Holmes (BBC series with Cushing)
Foreigh Correspondent
The Magnificent Seven (Collectors Edition)
House of Long Shadows
Die Nibelungen
Prisoner of Zenda (1937 & 1952)

[Monsters For Sale]

WOW!

You ought to send her a card at Christmas (or maybe Halloween) and let her know how much you are enjoying the movies.

I think it would make her happy to know that you really meant what you said, and her husband's DVD's had gone to someone who cherished his belongings as much as he did.

It must be hard selling a loved one's treasures.

[Howler]

WOW!!! You scored quite a haul. Bravo!

Today I had a mini score. I went to an antique mall and found three Universal Monsters busts for ten bucks each. They are the kind that came with the Legacy Collection box set. I grabbed them with a quickness. Then I went to Target looking for the Lego Monster Fighters sets, but had no luck. I did find a 50 horror movies collection for ten bucks. When I got home I found my copy of Mad Monster Party had come in the mail. It was a good day. 

[Scatter]

Rob, that is a MAJOR haul brother! Congrats!

[horror1o1]

That's one heck of a deal

[Illoman]

Even though this thread is supposed to be about vintage monster toys, allow me to tell you about *my* weekly find. Actually several over the course of the last year or so. My dad has slowly been cleaning out his condo, and since my mom's passing has made great strides. Every time I go over to help him, I find another treasure. Usually this consists of an old photograph of a family member that I'd not seen before, or some post card or letter that was written by a grandparent that I never knew. Those kinds of things are priceless to me.

Then there's the "stuff" I remember seeing as a kid, like the Archie Bunker campaign button, or a Snoopy ruler. An old fashioned model of a car that is actually a radio. The name plate from his office desk. Old business cards with his name on them, or a lighter imprinted with his name and the company logo. Once I found a 45 rpm record with the latest Allstate jingle on it (from 1963!!!) that he never opened!!! He has no use for these things that my mom saved, so I gladly made them part of my collection.

Then as luck would have it I would stumble upon something really special: something I owned as a child and thought was long gone. I've found Batman cake figures from 1966, Banana Splits birthday plates, unused from 1969, etc. Today was just such a case. When I was a kid we bought Hot Wheels, Matchboxes, and Corgi cars. Of the Corgi's I had the Batmobile, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the Monkeemobile. For whatever reason I still have the first two. I just figured the Monkees car was long gone. For some unexplained reason, today I go into my dad's bedroom and there's my Monkees' car sitting on his night stand!! Why?!? I kept the others, how did this one get separated? The decals were gone but otherwise it was in pretty decent shape.

The crux of the matter is this: the well has almost run dry. We've been through almost every square inch of his condo, basically just seeing what he wants to keep and what he wants to pitch as he enters this stage of his life. He and mom never had a lot of money when we kids were growing up, but they made childhood so special for us that that's why I am like I am today. I still yearn for those times of happiness, and carefree-ness. I'm sure I'm not alone here. I know realistically I can never turn the clock back, but man i sure love to revisit those days in my mind. And to have the actual items from that time helps me time travel more easily.

Sorry for the long ramble, but feeling rather melancholy tonight, and just wanted to share.

Thanks.